Chairs:
Chongwen Huang, Zhejiang University, China
George Alexandropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Areas of Interest :
Signal processing techniques for massive MIMO/large scale MIMO systems
Signal processing techniques for C-RAN/DAS
Interference management through advanced signal processing methods;
Signal processing techniques for heterogeneous networks
Signal processing techniques for sensing and inference in 5G sensor networks (e.g., M2M/IoT);
Signal processing techniques for high higher frequency bands (e.g., mm-wave/60GHz);
Signal processing techniques for Energy efficient large scale systems
Signal processing techniques for Full duplex wireless communication;
Signal processing techniques for data storage and management in large-scale 5G networks;
Sparse signal processing for 5G
Application in 5G systems with advanced signal processing approaches.
Signal processing for 5G non-orthogonal multiple access
Signal processing for D2D communications
Signal processing for M2M communications
Signal processing for large-engineering cyber physical systems (e.g., smart grid, transport, healthcare)

Activities:
IEEE JSAC special issue on mmWave, and accepted papers will appear in June and July of 2017
IEEE Wireless Communications, special issue on NOMA, 44 papers are submitted
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Special Issue on Video over Future Networks: Emerging Technologies, Infrastructures, and Applications, to appear
IEEE Access Journal, Special Issue on Cooperative and Intelligent Sensing, to appear
Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks, Special Issue on Next Generation Wireless Communication Technologies, vol.2, no.4, Nov. 2016
IEEE Access, special issue on The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, special issue on Wireless Big Data: Technologies and Applications
IEEE Access, special issue on Deployment and Management of Small Heterogeneous Cells for 5G
Workshop “mmWave Massive MIMO Communication for 5G” @ IEEE VTC-Spring 2016
Workshop “Novel Waveform and MAC Design for 5G” @ IEEE WCNC 2016
Symposium “Next Generation Networking and Internet” @ ICC 2016
Symposium “Signal Processing in Mobile Multimedia Communication Systems” @ GlobalSIP 2015
Workshop on “Content-Centric Networking” in conjunction with MASS 2015
Track on “Cognitive, Cellular and Mobile Networks” @ IEEE ICCCN 2015
5 technical proposals submitted to IMT-2020 Promotion Group in China.